Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather
With THE RT REV BRIAN HANNON , BISHOP OF CLOGHER Stereo
Presented by John Humphrys and Brian Redhead
6-30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Letters
Write to: Today Letters BBC, London WIA 1AA
with Libby Purves
Producer ANGIE NEHRING Stereo
This week the team visits Kent, where members of the River Gardeners' Association put their queries to Dr Stefan Buczacki Fred Downham and Sue Phillips.
Chairman Clay Jones Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester
Plant list and topical tips from Gardeners' Question Time are displayed on Ceefaxpage 188
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The Hungry Ones by JO JEMET
Read by Harriet Walter Producer SHEILA FOX
NEM p 71: God of grace and God of glory (BBC HB 391); The
Magnificat; II Corinthians 4, vv 11-18; 0 Jesu, King most wonderful (Bp 68) Stereo
3: The Widow's Tale
Three women whose husbands have been murdered in Northern Ireland talk about their pain.
Presented by John Howard
A serial in eight episodes by Peter Ling and Juliet Ace
Starring Jane Asher, Gayle Hunnicutt, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Margaret Rawlings, Dinah Sheridan, Martin Jarvis, Richard Pasco and Dominic Rickhards
It has been a time of celebration: Alice's brother Charles has got married, and her son Nicholas has joined the Royal Navy as a midshipman. The village fete at Ebony was held in the grounds of Crown House, and that night Richard discovered Jenny was in love with him.
(Stereo)
(Broadcast on Sunday at 7.30pm)
Presented by James Naughtie
1.55 Listening Comer Today's story: Tilly Mint Tales - Tilly Mint Makes a Frog-Faced Friend. Stereo
2.05 WPFM The weekly live radio magazine for the under-20s. Presented by JO WHILEY Stereo (e) Use the helpline to access database information on all available courses and training options throughout the UK. Phone [number removed] (free) Lines open from 2.15-3.15pm
Jenni Murray meets
Louise Aitken-Walker , Britain's top woman rally driver, as she gears herself up for next week's Lombard RAC Rally. Serial: Memory (6)
A comedy by MARTYN WADE withand
Amelia and Des's marriage is one of friendly companionship although Des has long since decamped to the spare room. He is forced to come out of it when some rather dreary friends come to stay. The other couple behave so badly that Des and Amelia begin to see their own relationship in a new light. Directed by CHERRY COOKSON Stereo (R)
George MacBeth visits the Janneau Poetry Festival in King's Lynn and presents poems read by ALAN BROWNJOHN. VERNON SCANNELL and CAROL ANN DUFFY. Producer ALEC REID. BBC Bristol
Reporter David Levy
Producer STEPHEN SACKUR Editor GERRY NORTHAM BBC Manchester
Actor Kerry Shale has adapted John O'Toole 's Pulitzer prize-winning novel
A Confederacy of Dunces and acts all the parts himself. He talks to Christopher Cook about the characters created by O'Toole in the setting of New Orleans.
Producer NOAH RICHLER
Presented by Robert Williams and Frances Coverdale
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.25 PM Letters
5.31 City News continued on FM 5.50-5.55
With DAVID SYMONDS
Half an hour of reports from BBC correspondents around the world including Financial Report
Last programme of the series Clement Freud , Peter Jones Derek Nimmo and Kenneth Williams try to stop each other talking for just a minute on subjects flung at them by Nicholas Parsons.
Devised by IAN MESSITER
Producer EDWARD TAYLOR. Stereo (R)
Written by GILLIAN RICHMOND Cast for the week:
BBC Pebble Mill
by SUE LIMB
An eight-part sequel to her novel starring
5: On the Side of the Angels
Producer JONATHAN JAMES-MOORE
In the early hours of 24 June 1948, the Russians stopped all road and rail traffic into the western sections of Berlin. They also cut the supply of electricity from eastern power stations to the west. The blockade of Berlin, which was to last for
11 terrible months, had begun. John and Ann Tusa tell the epic story of the blockade and of how the western powers transformed a pitifully makeshift airlift into a relief column of a size and scale never before imagined, but which for months stood on the brink of failure. Producer JOHN KNIGHT BBCBristol
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The creator of 'Bunter',
Frank Richards , is the subject of a new biography; and knitter of the year, Kaffe Fassett, has an exhibition in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Presenter Paul Vaughan Producer CHRIS ELDON LEE
A Far Cry from Kensington 3: An Anonymous Letter
Presented by Alexander MacLeod
Radio 4's international business report, market trends.
12.30 French B Branchez-vous! (5) Stereo (e)
1.00 French E Horizons de France 2: En vacances Presented by MARC CHEMAU Stereo (e)
